Saving an imported PDF,as SVG doesn't work

[Yoanis Gil Delgado]

The attached file was converted from PS to PDF using the unix command ps2pdf. Inkscape it's able to successfully load the file and saving the drawing as SVG works. But, now, if the user tries to load the recently exported SVG, an erros is shown, saying:

'Failed to load the requested file /home/fred/Desktop/Output.prn.svg'

Here i'm attaching the system information where this bug happens:

Inkscape version:0.46, built Apr 7 2008

Distribution specific information (as reported by lsb_release)
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

[Joe Ubuntu (josephdm)]

I had a similar problem with the enclosed file on Windows--the file opened fine, but the saved SVG was unreadable.

On Ubuntu Hardy Heron / 8.04, Inkscape 0.46 / April 7, 2008 simply complains of an "internal error" and then is forced to quit when it tries to open it.

[Joe Ubuntu (josephdm)]

Yoanis's problem is still reproducible in Intrepid Ibex with Inkscape 0.46 10-24-2008

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed with 0.46, Ubuntu 8.10. Nemiver shows this trace:
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#0 __kernel_vsyscall () at :0
#1 raise () at :0
#2 abort () at :0
#3 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at :0
#4 ?? () at :0
#5 std::terminate () at :0
#6 __cxa_throw () at :0
#7 std::__throw_length_error () at :0
#8 std::string::append () at :0
#9 Glib::ustring::append () at :0
#10 ?? () at :0
----

Terminal message:
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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
  what(): basic_string::append

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Oops, this error is not due to svg import, but pdf import. Looks like a new bug...
Please forget my last comment.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Well, I can't even load your PDF file. Crashes with 0.46, and gives an error message in build 21016.
Console message in 21016:
/export/Inkscape/BugTest/Output.prn.pdf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
%PDF-1.4
^
Badly formated PDF?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Confirmed with Inkscape 0.46+devel r22115 on OS X 10.5.8

Load of (previously imported 'Output.prn.pdf' and saved as) 'Output.prn-LeWitt.svg' fails with "parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value <...> " (see attached console log file)

related bugs:
Bug #305741 in Inkscape: “inkscape crashes during pdf import”
Bug #369861 in Inkscape: “Unable to open previously imported pdf file”
Bug #394472 in Inkscape: “Wrong characters in imported PDF”

[su_v (suv-lp)]

...and the SVG that Inkscape fails to load.

[Gordon (gferris434)]

This relates to Inkscape 0.46 running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2.

It may be related to these bugs:
  Bug #291416: SVG from imported PDF cannot be reopened, characters error
  Bug #297701: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set (duplicate of 291416)
  Bug #297702: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set

        I opened a multi-page pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0, and then printed
the a single page to a postscript file using the "hp color LaserJet 2550PS (60.3
4.41.0)" driver. Then I used the ps2pdf script of ghostscript 8.54 on OpenBSD 4
.2 to convert the postscript file to a pdf (two-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf.pd
f). Back on Windows XP again, the pdf file appears properly in both Inkscape an
d Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0.
        But something went wrong when the pdf file was then saved as an svg (two
-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf-then-saved-by-inkscape.svg) by Inkscape. When In
kscape tries to open the resultant svg file, it displays the error message "Fail
ed to load the requested file..." This seems to be the same as bug #291416.

[Gordon (gferris434)]

This relates to Inkscape 0.46 running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2.

It may be related to these bugs:
  Bug #291416: SVG from imported PDF cannot be reopened, characters error
  Bug #297701: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set (duplicate of 291416)
  Bug #297702: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set

        I opened a multi-page pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0, and then printed
the a single page to a postscript file using the "hp color LaserJet 2550PS (60.3
4.41.0)" driver. Then I used the ps2pdf script of ghostscript 8.54 on OpenBSD 4
.2 to convert the postscript file to a pdf (two-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf.pd
f). Back on Windows XP again, the pdf file appears properly in both Inkscape an
d Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0.
        But something went wrong when the pdf file was then saved as an svg (two
-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf-then-saved-by-inkscape.svg) by Inkscape. When In
kscape tries to open the resultant svg file, it displays the error message "Fail
ed to load the requested file..." This seems to be the same as bug #291416.

[Gordon (gferris434)]

Hopefully this is easier on the eyes than my last post. The description is the same, but the attachment is the resulting svg file.
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This relates to Inkscape 0.46 running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2.

It may be related to these bugs:
  Bug #291416: SVG from imported PDF cannot be reopened, characters error
  Bug #297701: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set (duplicate of 291416)
  Bug #297702: Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed
 Images" option set

        I opened a multi-page pdf in Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0, and then printed the a single page to a postscript file using the "hp color LaserJet 2550PS (60.34.41.0)" driver. Then I used the ps2pdf script of ghostscript 8.54 on OpenBSD 4.2 to convert the postscript file to a pdf (two-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf.pdf). Back on Windows XP again, the pdf file appears properly in both Inkscape and Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0.
        But something went wrong when the pdf file was then saved as an svg (two-printed-by-reader-then-ps2pdf-then-saved-by-inkscape.svg) by Inkscape. When Inkscape tries to open the resultant svg file, it displays the error message "Failed to load the requested file..." This seems to be the same as bug #291416.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

No problem loading svg saved from Output.prn.pdf.

Win 7 64-bit
Inkscape 0.91 r13725

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP (32-bit), Inkscape 0.47 and 0.48.4.
Not reproduced with 0.48.5 and 0.91.